Quotes from Ned Vizzini

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world.

SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think.

You lose one friend, you pick up another.

I don't want to brag, but if I go through this, and I go back to camp, I'll have something unique to talk about. I can be like, 'Hey, not only am I not a virgin, I lost my virginity to a frog-headed exotic dancer.' Will that be something to brag about or something to be ashamed of?

The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person...

Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.

I shrug. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he's going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.

I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.

one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

I learn something I didn't know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.

There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. [...] You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. You life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I've been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It's an adult term, and it's disrespectful, and I'm more than two thirds adult and I'm pretty disrespectful, so what the hell.

I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.

You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.

We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps

It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.

But your relationship with air—that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.

your relationship with air—that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.

I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early - at eight - with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.